[Openstack] multipath - EMC vs NetApp

Carlos Alvarez cbalvarez at gmail.com
Mon Nov 18 18:18:53 UTC 2013


Hi All.

I recently added a EMC V-Max storage system, and realized the multipath is
not working. The device is called /dev/mapper/XXXX but when I see the
multipath -ll output, I see just one path. It is working fine with a NetApp
3250.

Looking into differences, I see the output of the iscsiadm discovery
differs:

Netapp output:
root at grizzly-dev04:~# iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 10.33.5.10
10.33.5.10:3260,1030
iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.0e3c22d9f2ea11e2a2f2123478563412:vs.10
10.33.5.11:3260,1031
iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.0e3c22d9f2ea11e2a2f2123478563412:vs.10

Emc output:
root at grizzly-dev04:~# iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 10.33.5.25
10.33.5.25:3260,1 iqn.1992-04.com.emc:50000973f00bcd44


Looking into the code, the former is clearly what the connect_volume method
is expecting: a single ip which returns both path. I reported it to EMC and
the answer is that it works with netapp because the 3250 has a feature EMC
lacks (called multipath groups).

Is anybody using multipath with a V-Max?. It should work or EMC is not
supported?

Thanks!
Carlos
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